Changes

There is a TV commercial that shows what would happen to the world if we didn't have plastic. In the commercial objects like telephones, chairs and computers disappear before our eyes. The objective is to make us appreciate what we would happen to our infrastructure without plastic. A similar analogy can be drawn to the need for databases on the world wide web. Without databases many of the web sites we rely on would quickly cease to function. It is not an exageration to suggest that databases form the heart of the web and the internet as we know it. Without some way to store and retrieve data the usefulness of the internet would be a greatly reduced.